This rapid review summarizes currently available information on the definition, prevalence,
characteristics, and needs of long-stay patients within forensic psychiatric settings. Sixty nine …

The insanity defense is among the most controversial legal constructs that has attracted the
attention of scholars, practitioners and policy makers. Here, we conducted a systematic …

Background Prolonged forensic psychiatric hospitalizations have raised ethical, economic,
and clinical concerns. Due to the confounded nature of factors affecting length of stay of …

Background Serious mental illness (SMI), which encompasses a set of chronic conditions
such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other psychoses, accounts for 3.4 m (7%) total …

Objective The effectiveness of long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) in elderly patients
with schizophrenia remains unclear. This study aimed to compare the effect of LAIs with oral …

Background Whether the presence of caregivers during the hospital stay of patients with
mental illness affects the length of hospital stay (LoS) remains inconclusive. Aims (1) To …

Mentally ill offenders have a right to a fair trial and adequate treatment in terms of the law.
The diversion of mentally ill offenders between the criminal justice and the mental health …

The involvement of mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) in the criminal justice system
(CJS) is currently a major public health concern. This has culminated in several empirical …

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex psychopathology associated with high
service utilization rates. In turn, the hospitalization of BPD patients is a controversial …

Purpose The aim of the present study was to investigate socio-demographic, clinical and
psychosocial characteristics of patients with schizophrenia, admitted to a Greek public …